SAVOY AND CYPRUS. - Set of 2 pieces, formerly assembled in a book. 15th century. - Savoie (Louis de). Signed document entitled "Instructions des choses que de la part de nous, Loys, roy de Chypre, aura a fere par dever notre trés amé cousin le duc de Millanois, nostre trés cher & bien amé conseillier, premier chambellan & ambass[ad]eur le Sr de Codree [Guillaume d'Allinges, seigneur de Coudrée], & ce tochant la requeste que de nostredicte part aura affere contre la personne de messire Guiotin de Noiès & ses biens faites & expédes". Chambéry, 29 May 1465. One folio page, wax seal under paper quartered with the arms of Savoie and Lusignan. Proceedings against a Savoyard collector guilty of prevarication during the prince's absence in Cyprus. " ... Voulons que bien au long luy [s]oit remonstrez comme par les trois Estas de cest pays de Savoye avons estez advertis que, nous estans en notre royaume de Chipre, du commandement de nos tres redobté sr & pere, que Dieu absoille, have been raised and demanded by the said Messire Guiotin certain and several large sums of money given & ottroyees by the said country for our subvencion & relief, of which we have had no notices, announcements, notices, as we have been fully informed, both by those of the Chambre des Comptes and others, to icelluy Guiotin most of the said money has been appropriated & appropriated as necessary, which has been & is to our great & grievous prejudice & damage, For this reason, we cordially request that our cousin take it upon himself to obtain due satisfaction, hold our hands on it, and order us to personally hold and arrest the said Messire Guiotin, until such time as it is known whether he owes us money or not, &.... if he is found to be, to have & obtain justice & reason. Et se cas sera que ne creons que icelluy nostre cousins ne voleist permettre estre ledict messire guiotin arresté de la personne que anvoions fare la main a ses biens, & de ce requiraira affectionueusement ledict sr de Codree...". In 1459, Louis of Savoy, son of Duke Louis I of Savoy, had married Charlotte of Lusignan, Queen of Cyprus from 1458 to 1460, who was ousted by her half-brother Jacques. The Prince of Savoy was present on the island during the battles against the latter. - Sutrieu (Martin de). Document signed as commissioner for the Duke of Savoy in Rome, entitled "Testes examinati parte spectabilis ducalis consiliarii domini de Alingis domini Coudree, contra Venetos" [Witnesses examined for the part of the honourable ducal councillor mr d'Allinges, seigneur de Coudrée, against the Venetians]. [Rome], 25 February 1496 [1495, old style]. 3 pp. 1/2 folio. The Queen of Cyprus and the chamberlain of the Duke of Savoy are victims of an act of piracy committed by the Venetians. Minutes of witness statements in favour of Jean d'Allinges, Baron of Coudrée, in connection with the complaint he lodged with the Tribunal of the Rota in Rome concerning the theft at sea in 1461 by sailors from the Republic of Venice of his father Guillaume d'Allinges, former chamberlain and diplomat to the Duke of Savoy, when the latter accompanied Charlotte de Lusignan, Queen of Cyprus and wife of Louis of Savoy (mentioned above), on her sea voyage from Cyprus to Italy. It was only under pressure from Charles VIII that the Doge of Venice had the stolen goods returned. The witnesses whose interrogations are transcribed here are : Johannes Cesarius, priest of Nicosia, Agna Nossa, lady of Cyprus, and Demetrius Synopensis, nobleman of Constantinople.